California Teen Cell Phone Use Ban While Driving

[kandrathe]

How would a parent be seen ...

Your example even leans toward the attitude I'm talking about. Who elected you to watch out for me? When did it become the job of government to remove all possible harms from our world? In the first place, I don't want them to step all over our freedoms trying to save us from ourselves, and secondly, I don't want to continue to jack up the price of government to accommodate all the laws, and all the inspectors, and all the extra staffing, and all the re-education camps it will take to create the perfect nanny state.

Here is another example; Person A, has no car, and rides a bike to work. Person B, has a car. Person C, has two cars. Person B, is a compassionate person and decides that it is unfair that Person A has to ride their bike in the rain all the time while that extra car of Person C sits unused, so they go over and take Person C's extra car and give it to Person A. Person C gets home, and finds his extra car is missing and calls the police who correct the situation. So, Person B, still believing that Person A is unfairly deprived convinces the mayor and the town council that all people with an extra car should give it to the town, and all people with out a car the town will provide a free vehicle. This is what our government is currently doing all the time and thinks nothing of it anymore. Person A should have enough dignity in the first place to say, "No, I'll earn the money to buy my own car." And, the Person B's of this world should realize how unjust it is to take away peoples property to give it to others who have not earned it. Why do I object to EVERY nanny law? Because every one of them erode a freedom however small and will either take MORE money to enforce, or if unenforced, they undermine the framework of justice by making more laws without teeth.

One last thought here. Don't let the social workers know... But, I taught my both children at an early age about electricity, fire, and hot stoves and other dangerous things by letting them get close enough to realize they would get hurt by them, but not so close as to get damaged. This is my job, to educate them about the world so they have common sense and realize what is safe, and what is unsafe. Maybe we're onto something here. Maybe we are not taking the responsibility in our society to teach people common sense.